Moderator: Bleah Patterson (she/her) is a queer poet and writer, born and raised in Texas. She is a current MFA candidate at Sam Houston State University where she works as a publishing fellow for the Texas Review Press.

C.T. Salazar is a poet and librarian from Mississippi. He’s the author of Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking (Acre Books 2022) and three previous chapbooks, most recently American Cavewall Sonnets (Bull City Press 2021).

Brody Parrish Craig (they/them) is the author of Boyish and editor of Twang, a regional anthology of TGNC creators of the South/Midwest US. Their poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry Magazine, Mississippi Review, Muzzle Magazine, and beestung, amongst others. They live in Arkansas.

Steve Bellin-Oka’s first book of poems Instructions for Seeing a Ghost won the Vassar Miller Prize. He is also the author of four chapbooks, including Tell Me Exactly What You Saw and What You Think It Means, which won the Blue Mountain Review LGBQT+ Chapbook Prize. He is a Tulsa Artists Fellow.

Raye Hendrix is the author of Fire Sermons (Ghost City Press) and the winner of the Keene Prize for Literature and the Patricia Aakhus Award. She is the poetry editor of Press Pause Press and a PhD student at the University of Oregon, studying the intersections of poetry, disability, and deafness.